SSD helps speed up Tanki on Low-end PCs.

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

One good clever way to speed up playing Tanki Online on a low end laptop is to upgrade the hard drive to a solid state drive. That would save you a lot of money and you will be able to play Tanki Online without any difficulties or lags. The maximum size that I would recommend for a sold state drive (SSD) is no more than 160GB of storage capacity.

Amazon.com: Intel 160GB SSD DC S3500 Series (SSDSC2BB160G4) 2.5in SATA 6Gb/s, 20nm, MLC : Electronics

These sizes exists on eBay and Amazon when searching for SSDs.

I have noticed that many players are unaware of this, that is why I am saying my word about the need to upgrade to an SSD for low end laptops so that Tanki Online can be playable. Mechanical hard drives are too slow in laptops with a single core processor, even at 2.5GHz to 3.0GHz.

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

1 minute ago, RIDDLER_8 said:

The maximum size that I would recommend for a sold state drive (SSD) is no more than 160GB of storage capacity.

Why not more?

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

@ThirdOnion

That is because of price. Any SSD over 160GB of storage would become too pricey for a player on a low budget. If you can afford higher capacities like 250GB, 320GB, 500GB or more, than you can do so if that's your intention.

[PirateSpider 1,491]

@RIDDLER_8, you werent supposed to pull a pro gamer move.

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

I have written this post to raise the awareness that is either ignored or unknown by other players so that players can use a solid state drive to play Tanki Online at supersonic speeds on low end PCs and laptops.

[alkyng 3,080]

On 9/30/2021 at 8:30 AM, RIDDLER_8 said:

I have noticed that many players are unaware of this, that is why I am saying my word about the need to upgrade to an SSD for low end laptops

Agree with you in this. SSD is underrated among many average PC users. People are looking for I7 and 16GB RAMs and 3080TI, but forgotten what is more important which is the SSD.

[lssimo 1,559]

On 9/30/2021 at 11:00 AM, RIDDLER_8 said:

One good clever way to speed up playing Tanki Online on a low end laptop is to upgrade the hard drive to a solid state drive. That would save you a lot of money and you will be able to play Tanki Online without any difficulties or lags. The maximum size that I would recommend for a sold state drive (SSD) is no more than 160GB of storage capacity.

Amazon.com: Intel 160GB SSD DC S3500 Series (SSDSC2BB160G4) 2.5in SATA 6Gb/s, 20nm, MLC : Electronics

These sizes exists on eBay and Amazon when searching for SSDs.

I have noticed that many players are unaware of this, that is why I am saying my word about the need to upgrade to an SSD for low end laptops so that Tanki Online can be playable. Mechanical hard drives are too slow in laptops with a single core processor, even at 2.5GHz to 3.0GHz.

Buyer!

Edited October 2, 2021 by nikunj04
Kindly refrain from posting irrelevant stuff

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

I have played on the new Sandbox map and had no problems. I don't have any problems playing of this map using the highest graphics settings. You may need to adjust your graphics settings so that you can play without lags and crashes on this new Sandbox map if you are using a slow laptop. Upgrading your laptop's hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD) will greatly kick up the performance of your laptops to play Tanki Online with a much smoother experience and a high FPS level.

[lssimo 1,559]

3 minutes ago, RIDDLER_8 said:

I have played on the new Sandbox map and had no problems. I don't have any problems playing of this map using the highest graphics settings. You may need to adjust your graphics settings so that you can play without lags and crashes on this new Sandbox map if you are using a slow laptop. Upgrading your laptop's hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD) will greatly kick up the performance of your laptops to play Tanki Online with a much smoother experience and a high FPS level.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

My tips and suggests helps.

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

39 minutes ago, RIDDLER_8 said:

Upgrading your laptop's hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD) will greatly kick up the performance of your laptops to play Tanki Online with a much smoother experience and a high FPS level.

I don't think an SSD will improve FPS.

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

@ThirdOnion

Yes, it will because it will make the laptop run faster.

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

30 minutes ago, RIDDLER_8 said:

Yes, it will because it will make the laptop run faster.

An SSD reduces loading times. It has no effect on rendering performance.

[lssimo 1,559]

38 minutes ago, ThirdOnion said:

An SSD reduces loading times. It has no effect on rendering performance.

Do you think all the needed files are loaded on to the RAM and the game program is not constantly reading files from the HDD, except maybe at the beggining?

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

34 minutes ago, lssimo said:

Do you think all the needed files are loaded on to the RAM and the game program is not constantly reading files from the HDD, except maybe at the beggining?

Check your disk usage while playing and find out.

Most necessary resources are loaded into RAM when a battle is loaded. Occasionally, if a player joins a battle or changes equipment, it may be necessary to load the models/textures for the player's tank if they are not already in main memory. In such cases the game may stutter. While an SSD may reduce the duration of these stutters, it won't increase rendering performance, and in my experience these stutters are fairly rare and far between.

If the OS is constantly swapping page files between RAM and disk because there is not enough main memory, then upgrading to an SSD is not the correct course of action; increasing the amount of RAM is.

Edited October 16, 2021 by ThirdOnion

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

SSDs are a must for slow lagging laptops.

[NikmanGT 4,375]

Just now, RIDDLER_8 said:

SSDs are a must for slow lagging laptops.

Thx for the suggestion , i really want to boost my slow end laptop as i currently can't purchase a whole new one 

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

My suggestion does help since many old and slow laptops that are 20+ years old are upgraded with SSD when going to repairs.

[alkyng 3,080]

15 hours ago, ThirdOnion said:

Check your disk usage while playing and find out.

Most necessary resources are loaded into RAM when a battle is loaded. Occasionally, if a player joins a battle or changes equipment, it may be necessary to load the models/textures for the player's tank if they are not already in main memory. In such cases the game may stutter. While an SSD may reduce the duration of these stutters, it won't increase rendering performance, and in my experience these stutters are fairly rare and far between.

If the OS is constantly swapping page files between RAM and disk because there is not enough main memory, then upgrading to an SSD is not the correct course of action; increasing the amount of RAM is.

True, SSDs barely have an effect in the gameplay. For me, I have an SSD memory and I see it as important, not because in games, but because I use the laptop for everything from browsing and watching and even for social media, not only games.

I hate when some gamer channels advise gamers for certain specs in a budget PC while neglecting/ignoring the SSD part, while it's a true that for budget PC SSD isn't a really important for gaming. But computer isn't only for gaming, it's for everything. Any laptop more than 600$ with no SSD doesn't deserve buying

[RIDDLER_8 5,553]

You can buy a 160GB SSD for a very affordable price if you really look into it.

[lssimo 1,559]

23 hours ago, ThirdOnion said:

Check your disk usage while playing and find out.

Most necessary resources are loaded into RAM when a battle is loaded. Occasionally, if a player joins a battle or changes equipment, it may be necessary to load the models/textures for the player's tank if they are not already in main memory. In such cases the game may stutter. While an SSD may reduce the duration of these stutters, it won't increase rendering performance, and in my experience these stutters are fairly rare and far between.

If the OS is constantly swapping page files between RAM and disk because there is not enough main memory, then upgrading to an SSD is not the correct course of action; increasing the amount of RAM is.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I was reading almost the same.

However, I think the SSD would help when the PC is doing other tasks apart from rendering the game. So I think it would help multitaskers, what do you think about that?

When playing I just play and do some light browsing, I even have Windows updates paused, so SSD will probably be of little help to me.

[NikmanGT 4,375]

So tell me , I have an i-5 laptop, but it is extremely slow now with respect to opening tanki, whether through browser or through downloading client. So if I get a decent SSD , will it boost my playing in any way possible?

 

[Average 138]

Lol, this is not true at all. I have an M.2 NVme SSD 1tb on my current pc and my game takes a good 15 seconds to load where it only took like 5 seconds to load on my old pc with a mechanical drive. Also, SSDs will not give you extra fps, only speed up loading times.

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

On 10/17/2021 at 3:33 AM, lssimo said:

However, I think the SSD would help when the PC is doing other tasks apart from rendering the game. So I think it would help multitaskers, what do you think about that?

An SSD decreases the time spent reading and writing from secondary memory. In practice, this means applications will start up faster and I/O tasks will take less time. If you have sufficient RAM, then most if not all programs will be loaded into main memory, and so switching between tasks will require little to no I/O work. An SSD might help with multitasking if you usually have far more programs running than your RAM has sufficient capacity for, and thus the OS must swap data between main and secondary memory. But if that's the case, it's more important to upgrade your RAM capacity rather than to upgrade to an SSD.

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

Anyway, I'm not denying that an SSD is a worthwhile upgrade. But I would like to emphasize that it's not an end-all-be-all that will make every aspect of your experience faster. An SSD will make loading faster. It will not increase computational performance. Different components affect different parts of overall performance; pick and choose which components to upgrade based on your use-cases and needs.